Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
July 15, 2020
Summary:
It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behavior applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and costs by considering public, private and informal childcare. Results suggest that Italian households might alter their childcare and labour supply behaviors substantially if the coverage rate of formal childcare increases to reach the European targets. Overall, increasing child care coverage is estimated to be more effective in enhancing labour incentives than decreasing existing child care costs, at the same budgetary cost.
Published in
Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 37 , p.411 -439
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-019-00160-w
ISSN
11202890
Subjects
Notes
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